Quotes About Transition

I've been shucked and gone to heaven.

Minho looked at Thomas. "I nominate this shank to replace me as Keeper of the Runners.

It's for the best. Thanks for being my friends. Goodbye.

Are they changed because they want to go back to their old life, or is it because they're so depressed at realizing their old life was no better than what we have now?

They were boys, all of them—some young, some older. Thomas didn't know what he'd expected, but seeing those faces puzzled him. They were just teenagers.

The world is changing

Tu vida anterior ya no existe más. Una nueva se ha iniciado. Recuerda. Corre. Sobrevive.

El miedo se convirtió en curiosidad y, luego, en aburrimiento.

It's gonna be a buggin' long time before the world can ever get back to normal. Even if it can—we'll never see it.

We're doing the right thing, Thomas. See you on the other side.

they stared at the vanishing light of day, the sky and water going from orange to pink to purple, then dark blue.

I nominate this shank to replace me as Keeper of the Runners.

He wasn't sure when he'd reached this turning point. But something had cracked within him.

To fully appreciate the Sleep, you had to embrace the Wake and all its drudgery.

Todo va a pasar. Solo llevará un poco de tiempo.

The Changing.

They got inside somehow. They're taking me to live with the other Cranks. It's for the best. Thanks for being my friends. Goodbye.

They just had to go, to move, to do. That was it.

respond, but his figure seemed rigid. Mark could tell his hands were clenched into fists. "Toad? We need you to sit down. And then tell us everything that's happened since we left the village." The guy didn't move. "Come on," Mark pushed.

In his mind he was always leaving, always going somewhere, always doing something else.

After four hours I passed slowly from the country of 'nine-fingered people and prepare to meet thy God' into the drive-ins and motels and Homes of the Whopper but all I could see was the river.

Something or other was being made good. I touched the knife hilt at my side, and remembered that all men were once boys, and that boys are always looking for ways to become men. Some of the ways are easy, too; all you have to do is be satisfied that it has happened.

Business is constantly changing, constantly evolving.

We are like passengers on a large aircraft crossing the Atlantic Ocean who suddenly realize just how much carbon dioxide their plane is adding to the already overburdened air. It would hardly help if they asked the captain to turn off the engines and let the plane travel like a glider by wind power alone. We cannot turn off our energy-intensive, fossil-fuel-powered civilization without crashing; we need the soft landing of a powered descent.